Malaysia is preparing to purchase the Indian "Glorious" fighter. Are the pilots afraid of falling to death?

"Military Bill Sub -Point" Author: Zi Dian

For a long time, India's aircraft have been laughing in the eyes of the majority of military fans. Due to the inferior quality control and poor maintenance, the Indian Air Force's planes were no longer a news. However, India himself feels good and constantly recommends his own plane to the international arms market.

▲ India's "Arctic Star" helicopter crashed on Ecuador's military parade

A few years ago, Ecuador, who did not believe in evil, purchased 7 "Arctic Star" helicopters produced by India, and took it for presidential planes. As a result, 4 helicopters crashed due to failure, and even the presidential plane fell. Fortunately, the president was not on the plane at that time, otherwise something would happen.

It stands to reason that no one dares to buy such an airplane. But some time ago, such a news suddenly appeared on the Internet of China: Malaysia Air Force is preparing to purchase India's LCA "glorious" fighter, becoming the first foreign user of LCA! Aren't Malaysian pilots afraid of falling?

Indian media, is the news reliable?

It happened that the Military Bang met a Malaysian military fan friend, but the "regrettable" was that the friend found the domestic media in Malaysia and did not find the source of the news. Instead, he found a lot of Chinese media. Report. Is this a fake news?

▲ Related reports of Indian media

In fact, this news is not fake, but it was first announced by the Indian media. There was no relevant news at all. Subsequently, these news was released by domestic media. As for the credibility of the Indian media, I believe that everyone knows it, and there is no need to say more about military and martial arts.

Moreover, the earliest precise reports that military martial arts can find, just to say that Malaysia sent a delegation at the end of June this year to discuss the specific plan for the purchase of LCA. In other words, that is, just started to talk about it, I am afraid that even halftime is not even champagne. The whole news is probably the self -proclaim of the Indian media.

But it is certain that the Malaysian Air Force does have a lot of interest in LCA's "glory", and this news is not completely nonsense. Perhaps Malaysia has not been finalized for the time being, but has begun to advance related work. Is it really going to be sold for "glory"?

LCA "defeat" JF-17?

When reporting the matter, many Indian media focused on the information of LCA and JF-17 "Dragon Dragon" bidding, and compared with LCA and "Dragon". "Smooth" Dragon is because LCA has better performance. But is this really the case?

▲ LCA "Glory" at the air show

First, let's take a look at the "Light Fighter (LCA)" plan of the Malaysian Air Force. In 2019, the Malaysian Air Force prepares to purchase a cheap light multi -purpose fighter to serve as a supplementary and coaching aircraft for multi -purpose fighters. It is also called LCA. From the name, "Glory" is really a great advantage.

▲ Boeing T-7 trainer

The manufacturers participating in this bidding are all over the world, including South Korea's F/A-50, Italian M-346, India LCA, MiG-35 and Jacques-130, Chinese JF-17 and coaches-10, the United States Boeing in the United States T-7, the Czech L-39ng, even Turkey took out its own bidding plan "Jet Freebird".

▲ MiG-35 fighter jet

Although there are many bidders, there are very few players who can stick to the last. Many aircraft are just showing their faces. By 2020, most of the models involved in bidding have been eliminated, and only F/A-50, LCA and JF-17 are still being tested.

▲ South Korea T-50 Trainer

In fact, from these models involved in bidding, it can be seen that the Malaysian Air Force does not need so advanced aircraft, but a "miscellaneous" aircraft with low price, a large amount of procurement equipment, and a variety of functions. In fact, modern senior trainer can meet these needs.

buy the right one and not the expensive one

The procurement plan of any weapon and equipment is inseparable from the actual needs of a country and an army. Aside from these discussing military purchases, that is nonsense. Therefore, it is necessary for us to understand the status quo of the Malaysian Air Force.

▲ Su-30MKM of the Malaysian Air Force Equipment

The Malaysian Air Force is not a powerful Air Force. Facing its main imaginary enemy Singapore, the Malaysian Air Force can only be described by backward. At present, the Malaysian Air Force's active fighters have only 16 Su-30MKM, 8 F/A-18D and 12 BAE Hawke coach aircraft, and 16 MiG-29 sealed storage as a reserve.

▲ F/A-18D of the Malaysian Air Force Equipment

Although the Su-30 fighter aircraft is the main force, in general, the equipment of the Malaysian Air Force is more preferred to Western countries. Perhaps because the Russian fighter aircraft is not adapted to the humid climate in Southeast Asia, the Su-30's attendance rate is not high, and the condition of the MiG-29 is even worse. The engine often fails. Essence In the future, the Malaysian Air Force's main fighter aircraft will focus on the addition of the additional second-hand F/A-18 series, supplemented by Su-30, and the LCA bidders will be supplemented by these two expensive fighters.

▲ The MiG-29 of the Malaysian Air Force equipment has now retired. In this context, Malaysia's choice can be understood. Malaysia is not a wealthy country. The development of weapons and equipment is greatly limited by economic conditions, so it is difficult for those expensive advanced fighters to buy a lot. Although Russia has given a lot of discounts to sell MiG-35, the MiG-29 has been deeply disgusted by the Malaysian Air Force, so this improvement from the advanced fighter from MiG-29 is unsurprisingly out.

▲ JF-17 fighter uses Mig-29 "same" engine

The situation is similar to the JF-17. Since the JF-17 uses the RD-93 engine, it also improves the engine from the MiG-29, and it is still single-shot. Therefore, the Malaysian Air Force is not optimistic about this aircraft. But even in this "congenital lack", the JF-17 was successfully squeezed into the top three. Military bacteria felt that this could prove the excellentness of the dragon.

▲ The engine of the L-1 15 trainer has been "out of print"

In addition, there is an unlucky player-L-1 15, or coach-10. This senior coaching machine is equipped with an AI-222 engine made of Ukraine, which is now a rare version! Although there are still many such engines in China, they are trying to replace domestic engines, but in a short time, exports must be considered.

▲ South Korea F/A-50 is a hot-selling model in the international market in recent years

The other two final players have the same advantage: F/A-50 and LCA use the US F-404 engine, which is consistent with the Malaysian Air Force's future F/A-18 model. Logistics supply and maintenance. Compared with the F/A-50 of the trainer, LCA is a dedicated fighter after all, with a certain advantage in performance.

▲ F/A-18, glor

Finally, LCA is likely to be one of the cheapest models in this bid. According to Indian media reports, LCA's purchase price is only $ 38 million. Although the price of other bidders is not public, refer to Nigeria's $ 180 million to purchase 3 JF-17 orders, the unit price of JF-17 will definitely not be cheap, and the lowest price of the F/A-50 is comparable to LCA. Essence From this point of view, Malaysia really purchases LCA is not weird.

One dare to buy, one dare to sell

Since Malaysia's requirements for this aircraft are not high, the performance of LCA should be okay, and the price is cheap enough. But even without considering the quality of the product of Indianstan Airlines, LCA also has a major problem: production capacity.

▲ It has been developed for more than 40 years, and has not been built so far

In order to support India's local aviation industry, the Indian Air Force has purchased 123 LCA fighters, but only 32 has been used in the production of troops since its production in 2012, and more than a hundred orders have been ranked until 2030. Although there are not many purchases in Malaysia, there are only about 30, but it is close to the sum of LCA prototypes and mass production types.

▲ When India sells LCA, it does not consider production problems at all

How to deliver such an order, Indianstan Airlines prepares? I'm afraid they have never thought about it. In fact, India has desperately promoted the LCA fighter in recent years and even ran to the U.S. Navy to sell. It is just like a joke without considering the feasibility and production delivery process of the plan.

▲ This year, the plane is the same as the graphics card.

Although the purchase of weapons and equipment should be determined according to the actual situation of the country, which country is unwilling to buy air. No matter how cheaper your plane is, you can't pay it. Who would want to buy it? From this point of view, military martial arts feel that as long as the Malaysian Air Force can understand this and recognize India's aviation industry strength, it will not be able to buy LCA cheaply, and purchase F/A-50 is a better choice.

▲ Glory, how good the name is, the final result is dim, now I suggest it change the name to be dim

But who is accurate for these small countries? If Malaysia really dares to buy LCA, I am afraid that in a few years, we can see the angry Malaysian Air Force in the news that the Indians will "refund".

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